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7 Jun, 5 tweets, 2 min read
Djokovic 6-1 in the third with some ease, upping his level after an off-court break and running away with it. #RG21
And now Djokovic already up a break in the fourth. #RG21
And now Musetti can’t even win points.

Djokovic halfway to a golden set in the fourth, 12 points to none.

Mamma mia.
The Djokovic golden set bid is stopped at 16 straight points.

#RG21
24-5 in points in the fourth set as Djokovic bagels Musetti.

This match is now fascinating in an utterly opposite way. #RG21

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7 Jun
People find that satisfying? A super-talented young player emerges and plays 2.5 hours of jaw-dropping, world-beating tennis…and then enough time passes for regression to the mean and normal programming resumes, and it’s deflating. Djokovic earns the win, sure, but yawn.
Part of the appeal of sports, I truly believe, is that anything can happen. The any given Sunday principle that sees things like Mickelson winning in his 50s.

In men’s tennis at Slams, the margins are just too big to ever derail the top guys, and it’s cruise control to a fault.
Thankfully for tennis, the ATP and ITF have seen the light here, retiring the obsolete best-of-five format at Olympics, ATP finals, Masters finals, and Davis Cup.

When the best deal Grand Slam tennis can get is Peacock, it’s time for the Slams to see the writing on the wall too.
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14 Oct 20
OK, so here is the story of Sam Querrey fleeing Russia after testing positive for coronavirus:

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49th-ranked Sam Querrey entered the ATP 500 St. Petersburg, and was slated to face second-seeded Denis Shapovalov in the first round of the main draw.

Before that match, however, Sam tested positive for coronavirus.

So, too, did Sam's wife, Abby, and eight-month-old son, Ford.
The three Querreys were instructed to quarantine for 14 days at their hotel in St. Petersburg.

As the St. Petersburg Four Seasons is famous across the tour for being fancy as all heck, this was something the Querrey family was purportedly very ready to obligingly do.

But then,
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28 Jun 20
Sascha Zverev six days ago after Adria Tour coronavirus cluster:

“I deeply apologize to anyone that I have put at risk...I will proceed to follow self-isolating guidelines...stay safe 🙏.”

Sascha Zverev four hours ago:
This is my concern with tennis attempting to come back mid-pandemic: not that precautions can’t be taken, but that too many tennis players are conditioned to be wildly self-centered and have no concept of how to act for the greater interest of a larger group.
Philipp Plein has already deleted the frame of his Instastory that most clearly showed Zverev partying today.

No matter how lazy, sloppy and selfish players are about following public health guidelines mid-pandemic, they sure can spring to quick action to cover their asses.🥳😐
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7 May 20
Undaunted, ATP #1 Novak Djokovic continues to give his big platform over to some truly nutty pseudoscience blabber.

Not as potentially dangerous as being anti-vaccines, but NO, you cannot change the molecular structure of water with your emotions, ffs.

And by big platform, look at these numbers Djokovic has already gotten for this content.

That’s why it matters what he puts out and espouses and endorses.
To be clear, Djokovic himself was the one who first introduced this stuff about water changing from emotions into the conversation on his Instagram, saying that mindfulness can make unhealthy food more nutritious, and that dinner table arguments can make good less nutritious.
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22 Apr 19
Read the full victim impact statement from Randall Kaplan, the man beaten by Justin Gimelstob last Halloween. (1/5)
Kaplan statement (2/5)
Kaplan statement (3/5)
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6 Jun 18
With rain ending today's play prematurely, figured I'd do a brief thread on the match-fixing allegations against surprise French Open semifinalist Marco Cecchinato, which don't seem to be widely understood.
(I wrote about Cecchinato's case for @NYTSports back in 2016, shortly after he was given an 18 month ban and fined 40,000 euros by the Federation of Italian Tennis (FIT) for his involvement in three betting-related offenses.

nytimes.com/2016/07/25/spo…
The main charge revolved around a 2015 match at the Mohammedia, Morocco Challenger.

In a series of WhatsApp messages, Cecchinato had bemoaned to his friend Riccardo Accardi that he'd lost money betting on Italian soccer game.

He suggested that he knew how to recoup the losses.
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